Again, another difficult choice. I considered Johnny Test, Scrappy Doo, and others, but went with Roger the alien. The character is such a sociopathic maniac that it's a bit hard to find him endearing.

Toon June Day 13: Adapt your character in the design-centric UPA style. Here's Princess Kat if she would appear in "Tom Terrific" (which was made at Terrytoons, but Gene Deitch worked at UPA so it still counts)

I felt like drawing but had no idea what to draw so I thought I'd catch up with this. I don't have anywhere near the knowledge on the history of cartoons ans Bakertoons does, meaning some of these are the result of google searches. Also sometimes I've drawn comic book characters, which arguably aren't cartoons, but whatever I had fun.

Favourite character

There's an obvious answer here.

Least Favourite Character

In all fairness we're meant to not like her.

1920s

Scouring through some Wikipedia lists I stumbled upon Flapper Fanny Says. She was a cartoon that embodied the fashion styles at the time. Every cartoon was a single panel of Fanny in a new outfit, captioned with a contemporary witticism. Here's an example.

1930s

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Apparently the first female comic book hero to have her own title. The more I contemplate her design, the more I wonder whether this first for women was really for women at all.

1940s

Walt Disney's tragic deer thing.

I couldn't find anything interesting in the 1950s, but I realised that this challenge missed out the 70s. I skipped the 50s and included the 70s later.

1960s

Arguably the beginning of mankind's downfall.

1970s

Officer chin

1980s

I wasn't an 80s kid but I read my cousin's Hellblazer comics in my childhood.

1990s

While drawing Spinelli it dawned on me that Sticks from Sonic Boom is a total ripoff, down to the weird sideways hair buns.

Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Apparently the first female comic book hero to have her own title. The more I contemplate her design, the more I wonder whether this first for women was really for women at all.

It's a safe bet that a lot of early female cartoon characters, even the main characters, were definitely drawn with male gaze in mind

This is an idea I've been wanting to do for a while, a sort of a horror-gag comic called "The Ghost Cat". It's based on a Japanes folklore called "Bake Neko" (lit Ghost Cat), where a cat becomes a ghost after licking lantern oil (at the time made from fish oil) and rolling around three times

The story would take place in Japan, and features a kid and their parent who moves into an old house that is occupied by the mysterious cat. The cat would haunt bad guys and give them a warning by clawing an eye off, at which point the Cat would keep in a jar. If the person continues to be bad, the cat would come to collect the other eye